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TAM, I'm with you in the thought that there will be a time when the populace of the states that are still interested in supporting themselves will just start ignoring the feds. I'm hopeful, but not confident that DC won't send in the military to quell the "treasonous uprising" (if retards up there could actually figure out what those words mean), as we've read reports that our national JOKE, oops, I mean Commander In Chief, has instructed the Pentagon to start selecting/promoting military leaders based on their willingness to command their troops to open fire against US citizens on US soil. NOW, will the troops actually FOLLOW those orders? THAT, my brothers, IS the question. Let's all pray to the almighty that we never have to find out...

Agreed, we are in a very sorry state. Unfortunately, the elite in Washington have NO interest in uniting ANYONE. The more they can fragment the population,the more they can identify and pander to, or identify and attack, specific groups to stay in power. Ultimately the only answer is to reduce the size of government and its influence by forcing people to become accountable for their own actions and survival. Otherwise, I fear that gunfire is in our future....

Given our POTUS' incredible success in re-opening divides within our country that were generally closed among the productive population long age (his ONLY real area of success), I'm thinking it may be time to voluntarily split the country based on ideals. Hey, human nature has proven time and again that we're incapable of tolerating ideas different from our own, so let's just man (and woman) up, and get on with it. If you're a lib state and want that set of government rules and policies, so be it; you'll be in the Liberal States of America. If you're a conservative state, you do likewise, and belong to the Conservative States of America. People who disagree with the majority vote in their state will then simply move to a state aligned with their value set. That way, the people in each group get to live among those with whom they agree and share values, so there will no longer be these painful fights over who is doing the right thing.

Lots of problems solved. Role of federal government immediately reduced as the states and their economic production take care of their own . There would clearly be lots of things to sort out regarding the common defense of the nation, but thinking it would quickly get our citizens back to recognizing the necessity of personal accountability and hard work.

Would love to have others on the forum take this up as a fun, collective intellectual exercise to see how we might continue to live by the Constitution of the greatest nation ever conceived under God, while addressing the intractable differences that have developed as the moral, cultural and economic ideals of the citizenry have changed from the time that our founding fathers created the Republic. Anybody want to chip in???

Obummer doesn't give a rat's about Trayvon or Zimmerman; this is about trying to buy some time to get our collective ADD population to forget about the SCANDALS in his administration that should have him impeached, and all of his cronies in JAIL. WHICH, they would be, if the press, our elected officials (besides Ted Cruz) and legal system actually worked....